CLEGG, (Judge) John, N.C., then Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
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JUDGE JOHN CLEGG, LAFAYETTE.--Judge John Clegg, judge of the court of appeals
for the third circuit of Louisiana, is a native of North Carolina, born 1852.
He removed with his parents to Louisiana in 1859. Judge Clegg is the son of
Baxter and T. L. (Collins) Clegg, both natives of North Carolina. His father
is of Welsh and Irish parentage, and his mother of English. Rev. Baxter Clegg
was a prominent minister of the Methodist church. For a period of years Rev.
Clegg was president of the board of education of North Carolina. He founded a
school of high grade in that State, which, with a competent corps of teachers,
he conducted for a number of years with success. In 1859 he was made
president of Homer College, Homer, Louisiana, in which capacity he served for
a number of years. He died in 1884. Judge Clegg's mother died in 1886.
The subject of our sketch was wholly educated under the tutorage of his
father. In 1872 he began the study of law in the office of Hon. M. E. Girard,
of Lafayette. He subsequently pursued a course of law study in Tulane
University, from which institution he graduated in 1874. He was admitted to
the bar before the supreme court at Opelousas, June, 1874, and immediately
after he began the practice of law in Lafayette. He was secretary of the
Senate from 1877 until 1881, inclusive, when he was made district judge and
served three years. Upon the expiration of his term, Judge Clegg was elected
by the General Assembly judge of the court of appeals, for the third circuit,
comprising the parishes of Grant, Rapides, Avoyelles, St. Landry, Lafayette,
Iberia, Vermilion, Cameron, Calcasieu, Acadia and Vernon. His term of office
will expire in 1892. Judge Clegg was married in 1882 to Miss Mary Cage, the
accomplished daughter of Albert G. Cage, of Terrebonne parish.
Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
212-213. Edited by William Henry Perrin. Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.